Posts by paul 242 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jan 2008
"simple tasks like changing a volume label."
Thats a really simple task for my mum.
A) She doesn't know what a volume is (its not to do with sound)
B) What a label is (whats in a name?)
C) Why would she want to do that anyway?
Besides you dont have to go into the terminal to do that anyway...............(again more myths)
Jaunty is pretty neat - hardware support much better and lots and lots of bugfixes , pulseaudio now it works properly is great. +1 feature for linux
PS3 going strong after a year and a bit.
Wii had problems reading Super Smash Bros game - different type of disk and nintendo fixed it even after it was nearly two years old. Bad point - it took them 11 yes 11 weeks.
Xbox arcade - sold as far to noisy and Im not paying for live. (Little / no dedicated servers)
there are lots of versions of linux - and you are aware there are more than one version of windows? Would this bluetooth work if plugged into windows 95 - no. Windows 98 - no. Windows 2000 - no. XP - probably. Vista - probably.
Like I said , there are lots of linuxes. Its just a pity that Acer have a crap one.
But its ok as its linux to totally generalise and assume as it doesn't work on MY COMPUTER then it will never ever work on anyone elses.
Blu Rays are getting cheaper. I see deals all the time for films less than £10. Its not DVD prices , but things are getting cheaper.
May buy my first one soon. From ones I have borrowed from friends they do look good.
Its not just some marketing gimmick. (Cough - sky hd 5mbps bandwidth upscaled SD)
So many people hate the format because of its close association with sony playstation. I would feel the same if it was an M$ job.
At least someone on this planet who doesn't give a shit about corporate profits.
I never understand why some many people are devoted and in love with allowing the big businesses to do whatever they want in the name of profit - to the detriment for the rest of the human race.
Why give Stallman all this grief. Your on a bloody internet site that without people like his vision of open software would not exist. You would be looking at a site on a Sky / MS / big corp only computer network with about 1% the success and size of the current open ish internet thingy.
At several thousand pounds for a yearly train fare to London and Back from the sticks and/or £120 for a normal return (about £1 a mile) both with the added privileged of being able to sit on the floor as there are never enough seats - WHY DOES ANYONE USE THE TRAINS? Its far far cheaper , faster and easier to drive.
In addition, the govt giving the rail industry as a whole billions and billions (more than when it was nationalised) - the shareholders / top execs must be on to a big winner.
Price hikes - I've just lost interest in deploying the service. Paypal is used just because people are familar with the name.
Proper websites use a proper payment provider - with people on call who can help you. Not paypal or google checkout - i would expect these to resolve problems in days / weeks not hours / mins.
At least the E4 lineup and Film4 etc are on free sat away from the encryption of the sky platform (that was trying to kill the internet in 1996)
Cant believe Kangaroo was cancelled. That man murdoch is such a evil little bastard - I hope satan gives him a good roasting when his time is up.
Its all very confusing. If people are out of work , surely they would take a pay cut to get some money rather than nothing?
So therefore - why is overseas labour cheaper? Its not like the UK has masses of labour protecting laws making them more expensive (look at germany holland france).
@Arclight - you got it spot on.
Overseas labour is less competitive due to the language barriers , social barriers , educational differences , etc etc. But the CEOs (in their infinite wisdom) just see the salary checks - not the 10 people looking after them explaning every little thing to them. Although this is only a temporary barrier and over time decreases.
At our small business we have out sourced a little work to Ukraine, very cheap.Didn't save us much as we didn't trust the code and spent a long time looking over it finding the odd problem.
It is a monopoly depending upon how you look at things. The iphone as you may have guessed does more than make calls.
Therefore all the phones that just make calls are not in the same category. Of all the phones which allow you to install software from an online store - I would say apple has a clear monopoly as the android alternative isn't a big enough player yet.
Well down Saurik for Cydia , all competition is welcome .
The rest of you, go lie down on a mat pointing towards Cupertino , CA - look up at the big poster of steve jobs and prey to apple.
As others have mentioned - Tom Tom could quite easily use another filesystem.
But as windows will need extra software for installed for this filesystem to work (expect a service pack update to break it on purpose on a 'security' basis) - this complicates things for end users.
All OSs should have a common open free filesystem with mandatory full support.
Please someone who in Govt who isn't taking a bribe. Please break that p.o.s company up.
All that money $8bn - and they give us a table computer (surface) , a lock in lose a crystal, flash competitor (silverlight) and windows vista reskinned (windows 7).
Then they have the cheek to try and hit Tom Tom for using 1970s technology (FAT filesystem).
What a bunch of useless incompetent people.
The third party browsers are just safari with the buttons moved around.
Apple will not let another browser into the app store as they are scared of the competition , although the Apple fanboys wont admit that - they will claim security.
I have a jailbroken phone and still do not have another graphic browser and neither does anyone else. However, unsure if a text based browser like lynx has been ported.
@gerard - your right in thinking that some user agent spoofing has been going on. In addition to your windows mobile - I tried that when trying to get the 'special' bbc iplayer content on a desktop. Same boat as linux is/was.
Is present in my netbook HP 2133. Its not a bad little chip , faster than the atom but gets a bit hotter and slightly worse for the power consumption.
Atom doesn't have out of order execution like the VIA or its bigger intel / amd cousins.
For a £200 its not bad. For a £400 machine , go take a long walk of a short pier samsung.
HP2133 - Its a pity they didn't sell that well - it is in my opion the best netbook (if you take vista off and put ubuntu on it)
1280x800 screen - this is the major factor why its better than the rest. Keep your 1024x600.
9" screen not as good as 10" but oh well.
VIA Nano is quicker than Atom.
Lovely aluminum sold built case with great keyboard.
Bluetooth , wi-fi , 160G HDD (ok not as good as flash).
Having heard mixed views (ie not all bad) I was going to give it a run in a VM (although not sure if that violates any T&Cs)
I doubt I will use it until it comes with a new computer now - which by then will be to late to decide if I want it or not.
Try before you buy N/A for windows. However as Capito mentions above , I can just try linux before I buy (well buy for 0).
It could be time if I can get one of these cheap.
Im assuming it supports AD2P bluetooth that the jesus phone does not. You dont mention it but I think any phone from last 3 years does minus the jesus.
FM recv and trans. Bonus.
Browser with flash. Prob not as good as safari, but you cannot have everything.
better camera. No need to use that pos iTunes.
Sign me up.
Best idea I have heard in ages.
If people had to pay MS extra money to carry on using windows. People would seriously think about alternatives. Merits of the OS , cost of the OS and need of the owner would be the major factors rather than MS money + its army of sales drones / OEMs.
Oh and for people moaning about firefox in linux, safari in mac.
* IE4 used to come bundled with a mac. MS stopped making it. Apple stopped bundling it. (Apple should bundle firefox and/or opera it you ask me)
* Firefox does come with ubuntu and most linuxs. IE and Safari are not available. The only other major browser for linux is Opera. As its not GPL / Open source it doesn't come as this would break lots of what linux stands for. Some other linux's come bundled with another browser called konqueror. (What webkit is based upon)
MS has far to much money and far to many lawyers and pay off most internet 'journalists'
They have misled consumers - no question about that. Vista is vista - regardless of version.
I see the shills trying to defend MS - "well it can run basic but not ultimate". Or it still runs it just takes an awful long time.
PS If sony / nintendo did this the xbots would be going nuts.
Good:
Screen resolution -I have a HP netbook with 1280x800 and a EEE with 800x480 - the difference is major.
Quick Boot to internet.
N wi fi
Bad:
Price
Vista (well for me it is anyway - prepares to be flamed by balmer bum boys)
Unknown CPU - atom or core2 is a big difference. Atom isn't going to make vista fly now is it.
Sony exploding batteries (joke! - but makes the xbots feel better)
"I detest the fact that people don’t even realize that you can very easily add songs to ipods from just for example Winamp,"
Not with new ipods and iphones you cant. Apple changed itunes db format (again). New firmware broke iphone, new itouch has it built in. Apple have then started legal action against anyone who tries to reverse engineer.
Downloads are nearly as important - they are big money makers (no distribution costs, manufacting , returns etc etc)
PS3 full games can be bought on the PSN. Wii has the virtual console which rakes it in for little outlay for nintendo. Xbox gets its money from subscriptions.
Basically all consoles are doing well because the whole video game industry is booming. (even with credit crunch , people stay in more). Despite what the xbots say, no console not even the 360 will dominate. Im glad , competition is great.
P.s. for the geeks - Tux on a ps3 is getting better. 256mb Ram has now been added to buy allowing the graphics memory also 256mb to be used as swap.
There are video decoding methods using the CELL now. Mythtv runs quite nicely on it. But no 3D graphics (yet) - anyway its a damm sight faster than xebian for my original xbox. (But that did have a very nice video output)
"linux is crap , rah rah rah. "
Well with that out of the way, linux comes in many many different flavours. yes the xandros supplied linux on the eee pc isn't that great. But its reasonably stable and trouble free.
I installed ubuntu netbook on my eee pc - looks great. But wireless problems are ruining it for me. Im waiting for ubuntu 8.10 version of netbook remix with better hardware support (open source version of wi fi driver meaning problems fixed in days not months/years)
Meanwhile my HP 2133 netbook with FULL ubuntu 8.10 is superb (it has 1280x800 9 inch screen) - No wi fi problems :)
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